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Coordinating unit:
340 - EPSEVG - Vilanova i la Geltrú School of Engineering
Teaching unit:
701 - AC - Department of Computer Architecture
Academic year:
2015
Degree:
BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN INFORMATICS ENGINEERING (Syllabus 2010). (Teaching unit Compulsory)
ECTS credits:
6
Teaching languages:
Catalan, Spanish, English
Teaching staff
Coordinator:
Sergi Sánchez López
Prior skills
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Requirements
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Degree competences to which the subject contributes
Specific:
3. CETI2. Ability to select, design, develop, integrate, value, construct, tmanage, exploit and maintain technologies of
machines, programming and nets, keeping suitable costs and quality parameters.
4. CETI3. Ability to set up methodologies focused on user and development organization, valuation and application
management and systems based on information technologies which secure ergonomic accessibility and use of
5. CETI5. Ability to select, to develop, integrate and manage information systems which satisfy organization
necessities with indentified costs and quality criteria.
Transversal:
1. EFFICIENT ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION - Level 1. Planning oral communication, answering questions
properly and writing straightforward texts that are spelt correctly and are grammatically coherent.
2. EFFECTIVE USE OF INFORMATI0N RESOURCES - Level 1. Identifying information needs. Using collections, premises
and services that are available for designing and executing simple searches that are suited to the topic.
Teaching methodology
.The medium-size Group classes are conducted using the means available on the blackboard, multimedia equipment)
classrooms and are based on the oral presentation by the teacher about the contents of the subject under study
(expository method). In some cases, lectures based on the participation and involvement of students through small
activities in the classroom as direct questions, student exhibitions on specific topics or resolving problems associated with
the theoretical approach.
Small group classes will be:
- Laboratory classes: will be held in the computer rooms of the centre. The student will need to bring a preliminary report
prepared practice (read and understand the statement from a script previously be in the digital campus). Then they will
work on the computer and deliver a final report with the results. Practices are individual.
Learning objectives of the subject
1. Knowledge about the system administrator, with his/her responsibilities and tasks.
2. Plan the basic installation of the systems in an organization.
3. Learn to prepare an installation of the operating system, perform the installation, and the post-installation.
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6. Learn to install, maintain, and manage applications for the organization.
4. Manage user accounts, add users, modify users, get information on users, deactivate users, and remove users.
5. Use and modify the permissions and protection mechanims offered by the operating systems on devices and files.
7. Learn to monitor the operating system, users, resources, and applications.
8. Learn to maintain the resources and the file system in a good condition, and to perform backups.
9. Manage the system services, and periodic tasks
10. Learn to configure the main Internet services.
11. Configure, verify and maintain the security of the installation.
Study load
Total learning time: 150h
Hours large group:
45h
30.00%
Hours medium group:
0h
0.00%
Hours small group:
15h
10.00%
Guided activities:
0h
0.00%
Self study:
90h
60.00%
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Content
Presentation
Learning time: 1h
Theory classes: 1h
Description:
0.1 Information ADSO
0.2 teachers
0.3 Course objectives
0.4 Teaching methods
0.5 evaluation
0.6 Agenda
0.7 Planning of the semester
Introduction
Learning time: 8h
Theory classes: 1h
Laboratory classes: 1h
Self study : 6h
Description:
1.1. definitions
1.2 Parts Operating System
1.3 System Administrator Tasks
1.4 Skill level
1.5 Administrator ethical code
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Installation of the operating system
Learning time: 17h
Theory classes: 2h
Practical classes: 6h
Laboratory classes: 1h
Self study : 8h
Description:
2.1 Lifecycle of a system
2.2 Prerequisite Tasks: information and planning
2.3 Physical Structure of a disc
2.4 Partitions: concept and justification
2.5 Structure of the file system (UNIX and Windows)
2.6 swap area
2.7 Creating the filesystem
2.8 System Load
2.9 Basic System Configuration
2.10 Starting the system
2.11 System Shutdown
Related activities:
Activity 1: Problems installing an operating system
Lab: Installing an operating system
User Management
Learning time: 16h
Theory classes: 1h
Practical classes: 4h
Laboratory classes: 1h
Guided activities: 2h
Self study : 8h
Description:
3.1 The user as a protection domain
3.2 System Databases
3.3 Basic Commands
3.4 Deactivating and deleting users
3.5 Users and Processes
3.6 permissions and protections
3.7 Users and special groups
3.8 User Management Policies
Related activities:
Activity 1: user management exercicies
Activity 2: User Management Laboratory
Activity 3: complementary Work about user management
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Application Management
Learning time: 12h
Theory classes: 1h
Practical classes: 2h
Laboratory classes: 1h
Self study : 8h
Description:
4.1 Installing applications
4.2 Versioning
4.3 Installing from source code
Related activities:
Activity 1: Application Management Exercises
Activity 2: Application management Laboratory
Activity 3: scripts Programming Laboratory
Monitoring
Learning time: 10h
Theory classes: 1h
Laboratory classes: 1h
Self study : 8h
Description:
5.1 Objectives
5.2 Justification
5.3 Components for monitoring
5.3.1 CPU
5.3.2 Memory
5.3.3 Disk
5.3.4 Network
5.3.5 Users
5.4 Processes
5.4.1 Process Management
5.4.2 Communication between processes
Related activities:
Activity 1: system monitoring exercises
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File System Maintenance
Learning time: 17h
Theory classes: 2h
Practical classes: 4h
Laboratory classes: 1h
Guided activities: 2h
Self study : 8h
Description:
6.1 Internal organization filesystem
6.2 Owners and protections
6.3 File System Integrity
6.4 Backups
Related activities:
Activity 1: filesystem Exercises
Activity 2: Laboratory of timing
Activity 3: filesystem complementary work
Local Services management
Learning time: 10h
Theory classes: 1h
Laboratory classes: 1h
Self study : 8h
Description:
7.1 Objectives
7.2 Task Timing
7.3 Print Services
Related activities:
Activity 1: Local services lab
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Network services management
Learning time: 10h
Theory classes: 1h
Practical classes: 2h
Laboratory classes: 1h
Self study : 6h
Description:
10.1 Transportation
10.2 Protocols
10.3. Networks and hosts
10.4 Address Management
10.5 ports
10.6 Firewalls
10.7 Server and Superserver
10.8 RPC
10.9 DNS, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, SSH, NFS, SMB, LDAP, VPN
Related activities:
Activity 1: Network services exercises
Activity 2: DNS lab
Protction and Security
Learning time: 14h
Theory classes: 1h
Practical classes: 4h
Laboratory classes: 1h
Self study : 8h
Description:
11.1. goals
11.2. definition
11.3. Default security
11.4. Security and Usability
11.5. Safety Components
11.6. physical security
11.7. Local Security
11.8. Network Security
Related activities:
Activity 1: protection and security exercises
Activity 2: backup lab
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Virtualitation
Learning time: 13h
Theory classes: 1h
Practical classes: 2h
Laboratory classes: 2h
Self study : 8h
Description:
9.1. Habits and customs
9.2. Emulation and simulation
9.3. Virtualization and operating system
9.4. Xen
9.5. kvm
Related activities:
Activity 1: virtualization exercises
Activity 2: virtualization lab
Qualification system
mid-term exam*0,3 + Laboratory*0,2 + Final exam*0,5 >= 5
Regulations for carrying out activities
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Bibliography
Basic:
Adelstein, Tom. Linux system administration. Farnham: O'Reilly, 2007. ISBN 9780596009526.
Nemeth, Evi [et al.]. UNIX and Linux system administration handbook. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010.
ISBN 9780131480056.
Complementary:
Siever, Ellen [et al]. Linux in a nutshell : a desktop quick reference [on line]. 6th ed. Cambridge: O'Reilly, 2009 [Consultation:
07/05/2015]. Available on: <http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/9780596806088?uicode=politicat>. ISBN
9780596154486.
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